There are many ways you can help protect the Santa Fe watershed from abuse by off-road vehicles:
Contact your State Legislators to support Joint Memorial #13!
Contact the Forest Service directly
Contact elected officials
Submit an Incident Report
Write a Letter to the Editor
What should I say?
Contact the Forest Service directly
If you cannot make these meetings, you can still have input! Let the Forest Service know what you think about ORVs in the Santa Fe National Forest by contacting them directly. For more information or to make your voice heard, contact:
Robert Potts, Forest Planner,
Supervisor's Office, Santa Fe
Phone - 505-438-7829
E-mail - robertpotts@fs.fed.us
Mr. Dan Jiron, Forest Supervisor
USDA Forest Service - Santa Fe National Forest
1474 Rodeo Road Santa Fe, NM 87504-1689
Phone - (505) 438-7840
Fax - (505) 438-7834
E-Mail - djiron@fs.fed.us
Mr. Joe Reddan. Forest Ranger
USDA Forest Service - Santa Fe National Forest
P.O. Drawer 429 Pecos, NM 87552
Phone - (505) 757-6121
E-Mail - jreddan@fs.fed.us
Contact your Elected Officials
While the Forest Service is a federal agency which takes its orders from Washington, DC, they are not immune to public and political pressure. You can contact your federal, state, city, and/or county elected officials and let them know you are opposed to what the USFS is trying to impose. What happens in the Santa Fe National Forest directly impacts the constituents of these politicians. Write letters, send e-mails, make phone calls or personal visits to:
Federal Government:
Senator Pete Domenici
Santa Fe Office
120 South Federal Place Suite 302 Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone - (505) 988-6511
Fax - (505) 988-6514
E-mail - http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactform.cfm
Senator Jeff Bingaman
Santa Fe Office
Suite 101 119 East Marcy Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone - (505) 988-6647
E-mail - http://bingaman.senate.gov/contact/types/email-issue.cfm
Representative Tom Udall
Santa Fe Office
811 St. Michael's Drive Suite 104 Santa Fe, NM 87505
Phone - (505) 984-8950
Fax - (505) 986-5047
E-mail -http://www.tomudall.house.gov/feedback.cfm?campaign=Udall&type=Helping%20You%20
State Government:
Governor Bill Richardson
490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Room 400 Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone - (505) 476-2200
Fax - (505) 827-3026
E-mail - http://www.governor.state.nm.us/emailchoice.php?mm=6
Lt. Governor Diane Denish
State Capital, Room 417 Santa Fe, NM 87503
Phone - (505) 827-3050
Fax - (505) 827-3057
E-mail - http://www.ltgovernor.state.nm.us/contact.html
State representatives
Rep. Peter Wirth - District 47
1035 Camino de la Cruz Blanca Santa Fe, NM 87505
Phone - 986-4233
E-mail - peter.wirth@nmlegis.gov
Sen. John Grubesic - District 25
1322 Paseo De Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone - 986-4260
E-mail - john.grubesic@nmlegis.gov
County Government
Santa Fe County Commissioner Paul Campos - District 4
P.O. Box 23318 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502-3318
Phone - 986-6060
E-mail - pcampos@co.santa-fe.nm.us
City Government
Mayor David Coss
200 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone - (505) 955-6590
Fax - (505) 955-6695
E-mail - mayor@santafenm.gov
Submit an Incident Report
If you have had a direct experience with an off-road vehicle in the National Forest where you have been negatively impacted, you can download an Incident Report. Fill it out and mail it to us. We will submit it to the USFS and keep a record of it. Examples of incidents are:
- Off-road vehicle misuse (vehicles operated in unsafe manner)
- Forest damage (soil damage, drivers engaging in tree cutting, littering, etc.)
- Fire risk
- Unsafe use of firearms
- Noise pollution
Write a "Letter to the Editor"
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What should I say?
Here are just a few of the reasons designating the area around Canada de Los Alamos as an off-road vehicle recreation area is a bad idea. Write about these issues in your own words:
- Threatens the watershed through environmental damage, i.e. eroding soils, polluting water and air, etc,
- Raises fire danger from off-road vehicle igniting dry grasses and brush, and/or drivers causing fires form smoking
- Danger to others from potential ATV accidents, speeding, drag racing. Many people have had near misses
- Sound above traditional sound level norms both for residents and for users of the forest - affects daily life
- Wildlife damage - animals are driven away, killed and otherwise negative impacted by off-road vehicle use
- Small size of forest - off-road vehicle use is incompatible with other types of forest recreation such as hiking, bicycling, camping, and horseback riding, due to danger and noise issues
- Lack of law enforcement. Victor Apodaca patrols three counties and cannot be present to enforce violations. Also, most of the ORV trails are not accessible by passenger vehicles, so law enforcement could not access them even if they were present in the forest
- Increasing traffic from trucks and trailers full of ATVs through a traditional village, where houses are only several feet from the road
- Lack of ability for emergency services to access ORV accident sites
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